Uncharted: The happiness curve

Discovery
Mar 11, 2024 15 min
Uncharted: The happiness curve
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About this episode

<p>Hannah Fry explores two tales of data and discovery.</p><p>Do orangutans - or humans - experience a midlife crisis? Hidden deep in the data, two economists have found a surprising pattern: happiness is U shaped. </p><p>And, John Carter has a terrible choice to make. One path offers glory, the other to death. His decision hinges on one graph, but can it help him take the right road?</p><p>Produced by: Ilan Goodman and Lauren Armstrong Carter</p>

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